What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.